Encrypted Web Pages?

Michael Holstein michael.holstein at csuohio.edu
Mon Dec 17 17:01:18 UTC 2007


> Is there a mechanism to use HTTPS to 
> preencrypt web pages so that they 
> are encrypted on the server (and so the 
> server does not have the keys to decrypt 
> them!)  

Not using HTTPS per-se, but you can use SSL to encrypt files.

> My initial constraints are that once the data
> is put on the server that no one except for
> the intended recipient could decrypt it, 
> including the original poster, server admin...
>
>   

Or, to basically do with HTTP what GPG does with email. The original 
poster would necessarily need to have access to the plaintext, as they 
would need to encrypt it with the end-user's public keys (each of them 
individually).

I'm not a mathematician, but it can't be wise to store multiple copies 
of the same plaintext encrypted by the same cipher using different keys 
.. much crypto has historically been broken that way.


~Mike.



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